592: Bad at Being Pregnant

Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo

Jessica Lanyadoo

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

"Jane" can't shake the feeling that she's doing a "bad job" in pregnancy. She finds it grueling but doesn't want her negative emotions to impact her baby. Jessica and Jane discuss what emotional accountability looks like in this very special episode. If you missed the Astrology of 2026 webinar don't fret -it's available for purchase here: https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/shop/the-astrology-of-2026-how-to-work-with-the-biggest-shifts-of-the-year 📍 Find loads of extras including mentorship + a monthly bonus episode of Ghost only on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JessicaLanyadoo 🔮 Learn with Jessica, get her astrology book, and find your free weekly horoscope at https://www.lovelanyadoo.com/ 🧘‍♂️ Get Jessica's new audiobook, Meditations for Your Sign, here: https://tiny.cc/0sywzz 👀 Track transits like a pro! Astrology for Days is available at astrologyfordays.com Show up for Sudan https://www.mutualaidsudan.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic medium,
0:06.6	an animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no bullshit,
0:11.2	mystical advice for living your very best life. Jane, welcome to the podcast. What would you like,
0:20.4	oh yeah, my pleasure. What would you like a reading about?
0:23.3	I will just go ahead and read my question that I submitted. Hey, Jessica, I'm 27 weeks pregnant and I can't shake the feeling that I'm doing a bad job in pregnancy. I feel a lot of shame and guilt around finding pregnancy physically and emotionally grueling,
0:39.0	and I'm worried that these persisting negative emotions will somehow harm my baby.
0:43.2	I'd be grateful if you can offer support in helping me manage my expectations versus reality of my
0:48.3	situation and provide coping strategies for getting through the rest of pregnancy and moving into
0:53.5	parenthood.
1:01.2	I want to just first of all congratulate you on being pregnant. I'm assuming it's your first pregnancy. Thank you. Yes, it is. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I want to ask like a couple
1:06.5	questions before we dive in. The first is in terms of like your natural pre-pregnancy hormonal
1:15.5	lifestyle, do you tend to get like big hormonal emotional fluctuations around your cycle that you
1:21.9	notice or that you remember? Not specifically around my cycle, but I do definitely experience big emotions.
1:31.5	Like I get really pulled into big emotions, which I feel like is maybe not surprising.
1:36.3	No, I mean, we're going to look at your chart in a minute, but you are a double Scorpio.
1:39.7	So no surprises there.
1:41.9	Not specifically with hormones.
1:43.5	Because, you know, before we get into any kind of woo-woo stuff, big feelings that are just like outsized and really hard and different.
1:55.9	Some of that is just hormones, right?
1:57.8	Like some of that is like a normal experience of not a fun experience and
2:02.3	maybe an under-talked-about experience, but a normal experience of going through this bananas
2:08.3	thing that you're going through because creating life in your body and incubating life in your
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